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THE HARD R: ALL ABOUT PLUS

Dallas Coyle — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:00:04 +0000

Congrats to Ziltoid and Grover XIII for entering the blogger world. Check out their new blog, The Number of the Blog! It takes balls to work on something and put it out there for people (the world) to ingest. I’m sure they will get a good following. The Internet is such a specific place so [...]

SEVENDUST’S CLINT LOWERY CHATS NEW ALBUM WITH METALSUCKS IN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Vince Neilstein — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:30:46 +0000

Though Clint Lowery rejoined Sevendust two years ago, the group’s new album Cold Day Memory — out April 20th — will be the first Sevendust record to feature his writing contributions since 2004’s Butch Walker-produced affair Seasons. Most folks agree that the last three Lowery-less Sevendust records seemed to be missing something, an idea [...]

TRAP THEM ARE “CARNAGE INCARNATE”

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:00:07 +0000

When I posted live footage of a new Trap Them song, “Degenerate Binds,” last week, the reaction in the comments section was pretty much what I expected: you folks think that Trap Them r00lz, and I’m a fool for not seeing what the big deal is. Well, I’ll have another chance to get hip soon, as [...]

HIGH ON FIRE’S “FROST HAMMER” VIDEO IS ALREADY BETTER THAN CLASH OF THE TITANS

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:30:35 +0000

The video for High on Fire’s “Frost Hammer,” from their windpipe-smashingly good new album Snakes for the Divine, has been released! And it’s a pretty perfect representation of the song. It’s totally metal, kinda meat n’ taters but kinda not, completely lacking in pretension, and totally nerdy and ridiculous. Gotta love it. Snakes for the Divine [...]

SPEAKING OF ORPHANED LAND… THEY’VE JUST BEEN ADDED TO FULL METAL TEXAS!

MetalSucks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:00:05 +0000

The MetalSucks co-sponsored Full Metal Texas 2010 just keeps getting better and better! Last week Animals as Leaders were added to the bill that already includes such illustrious acts as Darkest Hour, Fair to Midland, Iwrestledabearonce and Born of Osiris; now it has been announced that Israel’s Orphaned Land will be playing the show, too! [...]

SHOW US YOUR MOST METAL FACE, WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF SON OF AURELIUS’ THE FARTHEST REACHES!

MetalSucks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:30:53 +0000

We’ve been telling you how stoked we are for Son of Aurelius’ new album, The Farthest Reaches, for awhile now, and guess what? It not only has an April 13 release date via the newly-formed Good Fight Entertainment, it’s now available for pre-order, too! This record is eleven songs of proggy tech awesomeness that should [...]

GUNS, RAZOR, KNIVES

Vince Neilstein — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:00:43 +0000

A few years ago I made a promise to a friend that if and when The Deftones come through NYC we’d go to the show so he can crowd-surf for the very first time. My friend isn’t a metalhead but grew up in Sacramento and has all sorts of love for The Deftones. But since [...]

ORPHANED LAND AND SUIDAKRA TRY TO MEND GERMAN-JEWISH RELATIONS IN TIMES SQUARE

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:30:48 +0000

Video of Orphaned Land in Times Square Monday night courtesy lindersgirl, whomever she is. The thing about Times Square is, it’s a total dichotomy of a mind fuck. It has absolutely nothing to do with what New York City is really like, but it’s one of the most recognizable and visited areas in NYC; great art [...]

AN EXCLUSIVE METALSUCKS PREMIERE: STREAM LANDMINE MARATHON’S SOVEREIGN DESCENT IN ITS ENTIRETY!

MetalSucks — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:00:04 +0000

Landmine Marathon are back! Following up on 2008’s vicious face-ripper, Rusted Eyes Awake, the band will release their Prosthetic Records debut, Sovereign Descent, on March 16. But you can stream the entire album right now, only here at MetalSucks. It’s more epic, brutal goodness from one of metal’s strongest up and coming bands, so make [...]

OV HELL DO WELL AS BLACK METAL’S VOLTRON ON THE UNDERWORLD REGIME

Sammy O'Hagar — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:30:12 +0000

I suppose I distrust supergroups because it’s too easy. Throw a bunch of dudes in bands people like together and it should instantly equal something people like/something people will throw money down to hear. And while there are exceptions (Them Crooked Vultures, Shrinebuilder, Cream) to the eating-up-downtime/cash grab rule, it’s more often than not the [...]

HORSE THE BAND TO RELEASE MORE DVDS THAN ANYONE ACTUALLY HAS TIME TO WATCH

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:00:37 +0000

I bought a six DVD set once. It was called Miso Horny, it cost ten dollars, and it literally took me weeks to watch the entire thing, ’cause, well, it’s hard to get through that much content when you’re only watching in fifteen-second increments. I certainly got a lotta bang for my buck, though! Speaking of [...]

IT WOULD TAKE A “MIRACLE” FOR ME TO WATCH THIS NONPOINT VIDEO EVER AGAIN

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:30:03 +0000

Speaking of our old pal Dale “Rage” Resteghini, here’s the new Nonpoint video he directed, for the song “Miracle.” It’s a real keeper. See, instead of trying to do anything that might make thematic sense for the song, the video mostly just concentrates on female MMA fighters beating each other. And by “beating each other,” [...]

STRYPER BETRAY THEIR LORD AND SAVIOR, COVER SONGS BY JEWS AND HOMOSEXUALS

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:00:27 +0000

If the you young ‘uns don’t know Stryper, well, they were like the Underoath or Demon Hunter of their day. Which is to say, they played Christian metal. Their songs had names like “To Hell with the Devil,” and “Calling On You,” and for their 1985 album, they even covered “Battle Hymn of the Republic [...]

APEX THEORY FRONTMAN SPEAKS UP

Vince Neilstein — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:30:06 +0000

SMNnews.com linked to a really cool interview on Ryan’s Rock Show the other day with original System of a Down drummer and Apex Theory frontman Andy Khachaturian. Andy played drums for System for 4 years before a hand injury forced his exit from the band on the eve of their breakthrough, but Andy persevered by [...]

THESE TWO DESERVE ONE ANOTHER

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:00:10 +0000

You all know Dale “Rage” Resteghini, right? He’s the music video director who somehow ended up managing and helping to sign Straight Line Stitch; then, when Vince wrote something negative about the band and MS readers chimed in to agree that they do, indeed, suck the big one, Rage actually started leaving comments here defending [...]

START YOUR MORNING WITH A “LETHAL INJECTION” OF SOULFLY

Axl Rosenberg — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:30:26 +0000

Is there really not already a metal song called “Lethal Injection?” I know there’s an Ice Cube album by that title, but I can’t think of any metal tunes by that name. That seems weird, ’cause it’s such an obvious title. Am I forgetting something really obvious? While I search through my CD collection (’cause I [...]

COMPLETELY UNREADABLE BAND LOGO OF THE WEEK, BROUGHT TO YOU BY MARCH IS METAL MONTH! WIN AN AUTOGRAPHED COPY OF EXODUS’ SHOVEL HEADED TOUR MACHINE DVD!

Axl Rosenberg — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:30:48 +0000

Hats off to Karina Rucinque. She correctly identified last week’s logo as that of the band Nasty Pig Dick. For her troubles, Karina wins a copy of Arsis’ new album, Starve for the Devil, signed by the band, and an Arsis poster that is also signed by the band. Congrats, Karina! March is Metal Month continues [...]

L O S T WITH AS I LAY DYING’S NICK HIPA: SIMILARITIES, DIFFERENCES, AND QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TWO TIMELINES

Nick Hipa — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:00:59 +0000

Virtually every Sayid episode we’ve ever seen has delved into some form of his past and inner gnarliness, so it only makes sense that last week’s “Sundown” blasted us with all sorts of action, violence, and brutality. Viewing the episode for substance, though, we were only handed little nuggets of answers to some very [...]

A METALSUCKS EXCLUSIVE: METALSUCKS READERS INTEVIEW DARK TRANQUILLITY FRONTMAN MIKAEL STANNE

MetalSucks — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:30:06 +0000

Ye asked… and ye shall get answers. We solicited reader questions for frontman Mikael Stanne of Dark Tranquillity — whose new album We Are the Void comes out today – and in turn Mikael has answered them for you in equal helpings of funny and serious. Your questions, his answers; does he ever get mistaken for [...]

DEPSWA VENT SEVEN YEARS OF FRUSTRATION ON DISTORTED AMERICAN DREAM

Vince Neilstein — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:00:33 +0000

Axl and I have something of a fascinating with hard pop-metal band Depswa. Or more like I have a serious infatuation and Axl just humors me. But we’re both at the very least happy that Depswa are finally about to release their second album Distorted American Dream; it only took them seven years! Depswa have the [...]